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Nel Babitzke

I was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois, and
graduated from Peoria High School.
Poet Nel Babitzke in Fall leaves
Nel Babitzke
I graduated from Midstate College in 1977, with a degree in Medical/Dental Assisting; from ICC in 1987, with a degree in Liberal Arts; and from ISU in 1990, with a degree in Mass Communications.
I am an only child, who has an only child.
I have always written poetry. My proper-speaking English grandmother taught me to love words.
I have poems published in the 1987 edition of the ICC Writer, and I won
the Silver Medal in the 2009 Heart of Illinois Senior Olympics Poetry Competition.
I joined the Peoria Poetry Club in 2008.
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